Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631203427 ISBN 13: 9780631203421

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998

Synopsis

This wide-ranging anthology of classic and newly-commissioned essays brings together the major theories of multiculturalism from a multiplicity of philosophical perspectives.

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The editor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. She teaches courses in ethics, social theory, and contemporary Continental philosophy. Her previous publications include articles in Cultural Critique, Philosophy and Literature, and Research in Phenomenology. She has also published a book, Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (1995).

Although the postmodern critique of "grand theory" prepared the way for multiculturalism, this same critique has also threatened to leave current research on race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and class without unity or direction. By challenging the impasses of the postmodern critique, this collection serves to explore the very possibility of a grounding work in multiculturalism and diversity without resorting to the foundationalism of traditional philosophy.

Essays span the major positions, including Post-Hegelian Theories of Recognition, Post-Marxism, Postcolonialism and Ethnicity, Liberalism, Analytic and Continental Feminism, Pragmatism, Critical Race Theory, and Theories of Corporeality and Sexuality. Contributors include Nancy Fraser, Iris Marion Young, Lawrence Blum, Howard McGary, Robert Bernasconi, Lucius Outlaw, and Leonard Harris, among others.

Theorizing Multiculturalism is ideal for students and researchers in social and political philosophy, social theory, cultural studies, American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, and political theory.

Although the postmodern critique of grand theory prepared the way for multiculturalism, this same critique has also threatened to leave current research on race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and class without unity or direction. By challenging the impasses of the postmodern critique, this collection serves to explore the very possibility of a grounding work in multiculturalism and diversity without resorting to the foundationalism of traditional philosophy.

Essays span the major positions, including Post-Hegelian Theories of Recognition, Post-Marxism, Postcolonialism and Ethnicity, Liberalism, Analytic and Continental Feminism, Pragmatism, Critical Race Theory, and Theories of Corporeality and Sexuality. Contributors include Nancy Fraser, Iris Marion Young, Lawrence Blum, Howard McGary, Robert Bernasconi, Lucius Outlaw, and Leonard Harris, among others.

Theorizing Multiculturalism is ideal for students and researchers in social and political philosophy, social theory, cultural studies, American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, and political theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631203427
• ISBN 13: 9780631203421
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Willett Cynthia